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Higley Unified District Board

9 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 58 min · 12,887 students · 4 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 13, 2026
Higley board approves fiscal 2025-2026 annual financial report 4-0Play 24:44
Newest meeting we have
Oct 13, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source
Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 30 minTuesday, October 13, 2026Higley board approves fiscal 2025-2026 annual financial report 4-0Speakers: Amanda Wade, Sara Jarman, Anna Van Hoek
Play 24:44
Board meeting · 2 h 49 minTuesday, September 1, 2026Higley board ratifies expense voucher 1013 without Born a Crime book purchaseSpeakers: Amanda Wade, Sara Jarman, Tiffany Shultz, Anna Van Hoek
Play 2:33:21
Board meeting · 2 h 11 minTuesday, June 2, 2026Higley board approves fiscal year 2027 proposed budget, directs supplemental review regulationsSpeakers: Amanda Wade, Sara Jarman, Tiffany Shultz, Anna Van Hoek
Play 21:47
Board meeting · 1 h 44 minTuesday, March 3, 2026Speakers: Amanda Wade, Sara Jarman, Anna Van Hoek
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 7 board meetings, Dec 9, 2025 – Oct 13, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 49% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.
Coverage: about 49% of members’ speaking time named (37%–66%)

Minutes = time we heard them speak per meeting, from the speech we have named so far, so each is a floor: at least that much.

Runs the meeting
Amanda WadeGoverning Board President · at-large · runs the meeting, not rankedShare13.3min, at least7 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.4questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Anna Van HoekGoverning Board Member · at-large · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share11.2min, at least7 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked8.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Sara JarmanGoverning Board Vice President · at-large · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share4.8min, at least7 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.3questions asked per meeting, at least
Tiffany ShultzGoverning Board Member · at-large · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.6min, at least4 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Minutes speaking per full board meeting held while seated; a meeting they missed or stayed silent in counts as zero · bar = minutes named so far · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record
All 9 meetings on our record
Clips

What Amanda Wade said on Sep 1, 2026

Something else I think, um, that I think at least deserves mentioning is 5th grade also has science. And so we're asking kids to do yet another multi-day test kind of deal. Same thing for 8th grade.Amanda WadeGoverning Board President · Higley Unified District Board · Sep 1, 2026Watch the full meeting from 53:14
Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance26%12%–41%
Ceremony and recognition6%2%–14%
Public comment1%0%–3%
Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 10% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

    Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

    Public comment

    Of the 9 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on Dec 9, 2025, heard from 3.

    3 on Dec 9, 20253 speakers2 speakers0.7 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 6 of the 9 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberOct 13Sep 1Jun 2Mar 3Feb 10Jan 13Dec 9
    Tiffany ShultzPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentNot shown
    Amanda WadePresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Anna Van HoekPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Sara JarmanPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 0403780 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district